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Veg the Vote!

November 26, 2019
Through a Harvest of the Month seasonal produce initiative, the CalFresh Healthy Living-UC program, school staff, Barton Health, and parent volunteers promote food literacy in all four elementary schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD).
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photo by Lowell Cooper
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Surprises of Travel

November 7, 2019
My wife and I just returned from a summer drive of 4,500 miles, I might add to and around western Canada. We usually go much farther afield like Borneo and then it is all too obvious how great the differences are from home.
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Distractions lead to interesting finds

November 3, 2019
Some days I am easily sidetracked. I started out reading an article about an upcoming meeting in Sacramento, focused on the state's agricultural future. Dan Sumner is one of the speakers at the conference, as is Erin Fitzgerald, who is someone I worked with in my previous position.
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This tool shed, not in Napa County, is closed for the winter (Keter)
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November in the Garden in Napa County

November 1, 2019
by Denise Seghesio Levine, U.C. Master Gardener of Napa County In other parts of the country, people focus on inside tasks in November. Garden tools are already oiled and hung for the winter; bulbs are dug and cellared.
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ANR in the news October 1-15

November 1, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California (The Conversation) Faith Kearns and Max Moritz, Oct 15 As researchers who have worked extensively on fire in California, we believe it is time to treat fires that affect communities as the public health challenge they have become.
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Hemp growing in breeding plots at UC ANR's West Side Research and Extension Center in Five Points in September 2019.
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Early UC hemp research already yielding results

October 29, 2019
For the first time ever, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) researchers harvested an industrial hemp crop at one of its nine research and extension centers this fall. It's an interesting crop, said UC Cooperative Extension specialist Bob Hutmacher.
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